Sometime in the 2010s I learned about the old Visteon/Ford car plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 2010 about half of the plant was torn down, but a lot was left behind. I actually later checked google earth, and people later leased it for warehouse space. Today there is power in the building but it is mostly empty. I discovered this when, the loading door was opened with a rusty shrieking noise. The building stank like mildew too. I snooped around the outside of the old facility anyway.

This is a satellite image of the plant in 2007


From the park across the highway


Some video game type crates




I thought these huge metal tanks looked pretty cool


For some reason they thought it was a good idea to put a wall of bricks behind the windows.




Some nice piping inside the building by the tanks, in the last photo you can see some of the cut pipes




A broken ladder beyond repair I discovered at the roof, the heat is warping the edges of the photo


The building is falling apart in some areas, especially on the brick facade.


This area used to be more building that was torn down for no specified reason


Rusty racks




There were several large piles of junk like this, an entire sink??


About 30 unused filters in metal crates, with an oddly placed Ford logo




Today only one is operated; the light on it was flashing


Another tank pipe house




The old powerhouse machine mounts


Account for your workers


You can access this area by boat if you want


The trussed bridge to the main parking lot




This surprised me but it was cool that they had these signs for visitors, plant manager, director manufacturing and vice president manufacturing




It's pretty, but clean the windows.


That's how I accidentally stumbled into a semi-abandoned site, it was a cool exterior urbex though.

What a find! The clock-in point with the bridge and razer wire is cool.

Maybe I missed it...but what was the mistake that was almost costly and why might it have been costly?

Posted by Freaktography Maybe I missed it...but what was the mistake that was almost costly and why might it have been costly?

Yeah, same. It seems that OP thought the site was abandoned and wanted to explore, then saw that it was still in use, took some pretty average photos from the outside and thought "Whew! Glad I didn't do in and get busted."

Maybe we're missing something, then again maybe not.

Posted by roue_libre Yeah, same. It seems that OP thought the site was abandoned and wanted to explore, then saw that it was still in use, took some pretty average photos from the outside and thought "Whew! Glad I didn't do in and get busted." Maybe we're missing something, then again maybe not.

Yeah, I'm glad nobody was on the site, but at least I got to see a few of the original car factory bits on the outside.